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Writing on GPUs, LLMs, MLOps, Kubernetes — and mindset · 6 posts
When Open Source Governance Breaks Down — The Ruby Central Dispute and Three Axes of Control
On July 30, 2026, André Arko published "Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy," bringing the RubyGems repository access dispute that began in September 2025 back to the surface after ten months. This post lays out the primar
2026-07-31 · 15 min read #open-source#governance#rubygems#supply-chain#licensingGCC's AI Policy and Open Source's Choice — What Is the 15-Line Boundary Actually Protecting
On July 29, 2026, the GCC steering committee adopted the recommendations of its AI Policy Working Group. The core rule is that legally significant contributions containing or derived from LLM-generated content will not b
2026-07-31 · 12 min read #ai#open-source#gcc#licensing#governanceHow Far Has OpenBao Actually Diverged from Vault — Tracing the Fork Through Release Notes, Up to v2.6's Namespace Sealing
Exactly two years have passed since OpenBao's v2.0.0 GA (2024-07-17), and v2.6.0 shipped three days ago. This post sets aside the tribal framing — 'BUSL betrayal' versus 'sustainability' — and checks where the fork actua
2026-07-17 · 10 min read #security#open-source#devops#licensingMaking Video from a Single Image — Kling·Veo·Sora vs Wan·HunyuanVideo, What to Pick and When
When you are choosing a model to turn a single image plus a prompt into video, what actually decides it is not the polish of the demo reel but three things: price per second, input-image constraints, and licensing. This
2026-07-17 · 24 min read #ai#video-generation#image-to-video#open-weights#licensingPlayStation's 3-year inactivity clause: what the terms actually say, and the digital-ownership question
In July 2026 a headline made the rounds: PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity, under its EU terms. Read Sony's UK and European terms directly and it is narrower than that: not a targe
2026-07-11 · 7 min read #digital-ownership#playstation#drm#consumer-rights#licensingOpen Source Licensing 2026 — BSL, SSPL, FSL, and 8 Years of Rebellion Against the Cloud — A Deep Dive (2026)
In a world where MIT and Apache 2.0 still account for 90% of open source, the 'rebellion' that started when MongoDB unveiled SSPL in 2018 has reached its eighth year. Elastic has returned to AGPL. Redis has followed the
2026-05-14 · 25 min read #open-source#licensing#bsl#sspl#fsl